A way to restore user/personal settings?

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I had a boot up error, was told only way to fix was to use system
recovery disks. Best Buy backed up my data to two dvds. Some things
are different and I don't know how to get them back? So I was just
wondering if there is a way to restore the settings the way they were
before I formatted? Maybe a file on the dvds? Thanks for any help.

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The error was a lsass.exe system failure. The popup read "security
initialization failed:handle is invalid". The guy at Best Buy told me
I had to use the disks.

Some options are not on the start menu, the desktop font color is
always white no matter what color I set the background to, and there is
a shadow under the desktop text. Those are the most noticeable. I'm
just looking for a way to do all at once instead of individually.

The dvds contain everything, to my knowledge, that was in the C: folder.